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Page Farm and Home Museum Receives Grant to Preserve Collections

Contact: Patty Henner, 581-4100 ORONO — UMaine’s Page Farm and Home Museum has received a $1,822.03 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to relocate, preserve and provide better access to its historical records collections. The grant comes from through the Historical Records Collections Grant Program, administered by the Maine Historical Records Advisory […]

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Bowdoin College History Professor Rael at UMaine Sept. 17

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine will observe Constitution Day with a Thursday, Sept. 17 lecture by Prof. Patrick Rael from the Bowdoin College history faculty. Rael, a specialist in Arfican-American history, will discuss “What the Fathers Founded: The Constitution, Slavery, and Resistance before the Civil War.”  The lecture, […]

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Darwin Lecture Series Continues Wednesday 9/9

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Celebration of Darwin class and lecture series continues on Wednesday, Sept. 9 with a talk by UMaine chemistry professor on Darwin’s historical and cultural impact.  There is no Monday lecture next week because of Labor Day. Each class meeting in the semester-long series […]

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UMaine Professor Researching Way to Make Cancer Detection Easier

Contacts: Michael Mason (207) 581-2344; Aimee Dolloff, (207) 581-3777 ORONO, Maine – A recent discovery by a University of Maine engineering professor and his collaborators is expected to make it easier for doctors to find cancerous tumors and start treatment in the early stages of the disease when it can be most effective. Associate Professor […]

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Jazz Festival on Campus Saturday

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine Office of Multicultural Programs will present its first annual Harambé Jazz Festival in the Dunn Hall parking lot, across from Wells Conference Center, on Saturday Sept. 5.  The event is scheduled for 12 noon-4 p.m. Using music as a cultural bridge, the festival […]

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Darwin Lecture Series Continues on Wednesday

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — The University of Maine’s Celebration of Darwin class and lecture series continues on Wednesday, Sept. 2 with a talk by UMaine psychology professor Larry Smith, “Darwin: the Reluctant Revolutionary?” Each class meeting in the semester-long series is also open to members of the UMaine community and the […]

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UMaine Cooperative Extension to Offer “Make Your Own Baby Food” Classes

Contact: Kate Yerxa at 581-3109 (media only), or Nannette Marcinkowski at 581-3445. When most people think of green baby food, pureed peas or string beans come to mind.  But Kate Yerxa, the statewide educator for nutrition and physical activity at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, has a different perspective. The green she sees isn’t […]

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UMaine Welcomes Class of 2013; Overall Enrollment Projected to Grow

Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 joecarr@maine.edu ORONO — Approximately 700 University of Maine students, faculty members, staff members and others turned out today to welcome the university’s new first-year students, the Class of 2013.  The backbone of UMaine’s traditional “Maine Hello” program, those volunteers met the new students and their families as they arrived […]

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